Growing up in upstate New York in the 1950s and 1960s, we enjoyed one TV station, and every spring we looked forward to its annual presentation of "The Wizard of Oz."

Dorothy and Toto were swept up by an ill wind and transported to Oz. They desperately wanted to get back home. As they walked along, they met a lion with no courage, a scarecrow with no brains and a tin man with no heart.

These companions joined together on a journey to ask the great and powerful Wizard of Oz to grant them their desires. When they arrived at Oz they discovered the Wizard was a fraud who hid behind a curtain and relied on multiple props to make him appear great.

The American people have been swept up by an ill wind and are now on a similar journey of looking for brains, heart, courage and wanting to get back our great country. They are also discovering that the person they hoped to lead them is a fraud.

The great and powerful Obama has proven to be a person incapable of saying anything without his teleprompter. He hides behind it like Oz hid behind his curtain. In a matter of a couple of months he has insulted our greatest ally, Great Britain; destroyed trillions of dollars of stock market wealth, proposed foolish tax increases on everyone, attempted to destroy our health care system, stopped new domestic oil and gas exploration, and appointed many incompetents as advisers/cabinet members.

Just think how much more he can accomplish over four years!

Do the American people have the brains, heart and courage to get our great country back from Oz-bama?

Martin Samchalk

Pinehurst